Lee Millan writes: This week, 13th-19th May, is Mental Health Awareness Week. Most of us will know one family member affected by mental illness. It’s one of the most common but less spoken of difficulties. Statistically, with one in four
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The average UK fee for a first degree in UK universities is now £8500 (up from the £3000 introduced in 2006). Does it represent good value for money? Are our students well served? These are the question explored by a
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Universal Credit (UC) and the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are just two of many reforms that the coalition has put through in this parliament. While both UC and PIP have been thoroughly scrutinised by the media (including yours truly) and
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Hundreds of people attended the meeting hosted by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) to launch the third edition of the feminist classic text, Beyond the Fragments last Friday (3 May). Indeed the event had proved so popular that
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This week, representatives to the European Union voted to enforce a temporary, two-year ban on pesticides, despite the opposition from the UK environmental minister, Owen Patterson, who voted against the ban. Bee numbers have suffered significant and widespread decline in
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Serious concerns are being raised about the way the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is being administered. Unless you are disabled, you may not know about PIP. It is part of the government’s reshaping of the welfare system and is
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In this blog Chris Creegan looks back at some of the key moments during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership which influenced the shift in attitudes towards homosexuality and created the momentum for subsequent legislative changes….. There are occasions when the blogosphere becomes consumed
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Christian Stensrud writes: In the week of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, it is perhaps worth reflecting on one of the most contentious policy areas influenced by the Thatcher government - that of welfare. The Thatcher government’s objectives were to revive market
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Interdisciplinarity research: it’s here, it’s the future. “I think what typifies research today, which is different from even ten years ago, is if you want to do really good research, you need to have multiple methods, multiple disciplines working together”.
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Levels of deprivation today are worse in a number of vital areas – from basic housing to key social activities – than at any point in the past 30 years, according to a report published today by Poverty and Social Exclusion
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